Scott Wilson

Cowards

Thanks for our daily dose of New York arrogance. You have zero idea what lies East of the Hudson.

Another utterly useless exercise in trying to understand fascism, after almost 10 years of useless exercises. Fascism appeals to people. It's not more complicated than that. And there is no middle ground between fascism and democracy. All you can do is beat it, and you do that by standing up to it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

Quinta, do you have any idea how juvenile this frame is?

Ah, yes. The Triumph of the Shill.

Finan sort of agrees with the fascists. I mean, he thinks they have a point, right? And the Atlantic prints it.

How can you be this obtuse? The choice is between using the available legal tools to fight authoritarianism, or simply surrendering. It's not a "Sophie's Choice" - there's no choice at all. Surrender is the same as losing the fight. If you fight, you have a chance. How is that not clear?

How can you be this obtuse? The choice is between using the available legal tools to fight authoritarianism, or simply surrendering. It's not a "Sophie's Choice" - there's no choice at all. Surrender is the same as losing the fight. If you fight, you have a chance. How is that not clear?

What a stinking pile. The Floyd unrest responded to a murder by police that we all watched. Jan. 6 responded to a deliberate, self serving lie told by an authoritarian president. The two could not be more different in source and justification. Yet you connect them and suggest equivalence.

I wouldn't be out there if I didn't believe that America can come through this moment, if each of us is prepared to play our role in demanding and delivering a better future.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Epic idea

The quickest way to a man’s heart is to insert a needle between the xiphoid process and left costal margin at a 15-to-30-degree angle, directed towards the left shoulder

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Bezos’ Dine and Dash Inside The Washington Post, staffers are "in utter despair" and "hopeless" under publisher Will Lewis. Meanwhile, owner Jeff Bezos doesn't seem to care.

Inside The Washington Post, staffers are "in utter despair" and "hopeless" under publisher Will Lewis. Meanwhile, owner Jeff Bezos doesn't seem to care.

Details in Status: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

"History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"

No

Hey, thanks for my daily dose of "not-so-badism," Quinta. I notice you made no mention of Trump's intention to further pack the courts, this time with judges well to the right of FedSoc.

The law is only as good as those interpreting it. Aileen Cannon is the future.

Imagine the suckers who believed him

The good thing about Steven Seagal movies is that you can just turn off the shit and watch something else.

An excerpt from Oliver Darcy's newsletter, Status. Soon-Shiong does also plan to get directly involved with how the Times presents its news stories to readers. Speaking to Jennings as the latter hosted a radio show Wednesday, the billionaire revealed that, behind the scenes, he is working on developing a "bias meter" powered by artificial intelligence that will be placed on both opinion and news stories. Soon-Shiong said that the hope is to roll out the new feature, which will use the technology to seemingly warn readers that his own reporters are biased, as early as next month. "Whether in news or opinion ... you have a bias meter," Soon-Shiong explained to Jennings. "So that someone could understand as a reader that the source of the article has some level of bias. ... And then … the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story, based on that story, and then give comments."

The billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times is getting very aggressive toward his own staff. Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social calls him "MAGA-curious." www.status.news/p/los-angele...

I found this part particularly alarming.

Sources: the LAT now has to send Patrick Soon-Shiong opinion story headlines ahead of publication for review, after carrying a Elon Musk headline he didn't like (Oliver Darcy/Status)

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This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

Nom is not a word

And this graphic is already out of date—as his lead is now down to about 1.5%. Whatever the opposite of a mandate is... this was that.

A squeeze play? A narrow escape?

No, I'm kidding. Corporate media is calling it a mandate and they're never wrong about Trump, so let's go with whatever they say.

This year I am thankful for everyone who agrees that big money donors and out-of-touch strategists must be blamed for the harm they have caused due to their endless greed and corruption.